1965 Shelby Shelby

Make

Shelby

Model

Shelby

Year

1965

Listed price

$109,997

Location

Bradenton, Florida

Transmission

Manual

Mileage

2,599 miles

1965 Shelby Cobra 427 â?" Backdraft Roadster Build, Ford Racing 427 V8, Tremec TKO 5-Speed Why This Car Is Special The 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 is arguably the most consequential American sports car ever built. Carroll Shelby's formula was simple on paper and violent in practice: take an AC Ace chassis, stuff in the biggest Ford V8 that would fit, and hand the result to anyone brave enough to drive it. The original 427 Cobra â?" produced in very limited numbers during 1965 and 1966, with fewer than 350 true 427-chassis cars built during that entire run â?" became the benchmark against which every American performance car since has been measured. Its power-to-weight ratio was savage by any standard of the era, and it remains genuinely fast by modern standards.